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MOVIE NEWS FANTASTIC FOUR 2 Returning director Tim Story has revealed how they plan to portray supporting character The Silver Surfer (right) in the Fantastic Four sequel, saying: "The Surfer will be a new CGI design being developed especially for the movie. It's going to be incredible." AVATAR James Cameron's next movie will involve a great deal of motion-capture, and WETA (Peter Jackson's company that worked on Lord Of The Rings and King Kong) have supposedly been approached to get involved... HE-MAN 'CanMag.Com' report that John Woo's Spyhunter and He-Man movies have both stalled while the director returns to Hong Kong to make movies for awhile... HIS DARK MATERIALS 'New Line Cinema' are finally moving ahead with the movie adaptations to Philip Pullman's fantasy trilogy, with Chris Weitz back in charge of the $150 million first movie The Golden Compass (the UK novel was known as Northern Lights). The production have already cast young heroine Lyra, an unknown actress called Dakota Blue Richards, who apparently impressed author Pullman immensely. Filming starts on 4 September. I AM LEGEND 'BlackFilm.com' revealed that Johnny Depp will co-star in I Am Legend, from director Francis Lawrence, alongside Will Smith. Smith is playing the lead role in the post-apocalyptic adventure, previously made as The Omega Man, with Depp set to play a fellow survivor named Philip. In related news, a recent draft of the script has made the monsters unable to speak, with more emphasis on primal unintelligence. INDIANA JONES 4 'The Hollywood Reporter' mentioned that the latest draft of Indiana Jones, this time from David Koepp, is expected to be handed in within the next 3 months. After going through years of drafts with dozens of screenwriters, will this finally be the script that ensures Spielberg, Harrison Ford and George Lucas actually make the bloody thing before Ford pushes up the daisies? DAN'S MOVIE DIGEST BLOG (DMDB) - Dan Owen.blogspot.com A companion to DMD for a daily fix of news, reviews, opinions, links and other goodies! Recent posts to DMDB include: My Movie Live 1979-2006 Saxondale Episode 3 TV review 24 Season 5 Retrospective Doctor Who: Army of Ghosts TV review Wolverine script review Spiderman 3 Teaser trailer So hurry over to Dan Owen.blogspot.com and bookmark DMDB!

TRAILERS Transformers" - Announcement Trailer (click here for trailer) Trans-for-mers, robots in disguiseeee... Ah. A child of the 80's. Oh yes. Please tell me a movie is on the way with massive transforming robots. Okay. A movie is on the way with massive transforming robots. YES! Who's directing this? Steven Spielberg? Clint Eastwood? Ron Howard? Peter Weir? Michael Bay. Oh good! He can blow shit up very nicely. Yep! As witnessed in The Rock, Armageddon, Pearl Harbor, Bad Boys and The Island. Does the trailer look cool? It's... well, interesting. This is just an announcement trailer, not even a teaser, and shows the Beagle 2 mission's "reality". This reality being... It didn't burn up on entry into Mars; it landed safely and was stomped on by a giant transforming robot! I see. Like I said, just an announcement trailer to let everyone know a Transformers movie is on the way. I'm sure it will be every bit as dumb and stuffed full of exciting explosions and special-effects as you're imagining... US TOP 10 (CINEMA) All figures are weekend box-office gross. 1. Superman Returns ($52.1m) 2. The Devil Wears Prada ($27.0m) 3. Click ($19.4m) 4. Cars ($14.0m) (total to date: $182m) 5. Nacho Libre ($6.19m) 6. The Lake House ($4.51m) 7. The Fast and the Furious 3: Tokyo Drift ($4.40m) 8. Waist Deep ($3.31m) 9. The Break-Up ($2.80m) (total to date: $110m) 10. The Da Vinci Code ($2.30m) (total to date: $210m) UK TOP 10 (CINEMA) 1. Over the Hedge (£3.58m) 2. Just My Luck (£0.57m) 3. The Fast and the Furious 3: Tokyo Drift (£0.53m) 4. The Lake House (£0.39m) 5. The Wind The Shakes The Barley (£0.33m) 6. The Da Vinci Code (£0.232m) 7. X-Men 3: The Last Stand (£0.231m) 8. Huo Yuan Jia (£0.19m) 9. Hard Candy (£0.13m) 10. The Omen (2006) (£0.12m) < ** IN THE PIPELINE ** All the following are U.K. release dates, and are subject to change. 7th July 2006: Ju-on: The Grudge 2, Awesome: I Fuckin' Shot That!, Pirates of the Caribbean 2: Dead Man's Chest 14th July 2006: Superman Returns, Viva Zapatero, The Death of Mr Lazarescu 21st July 2006: 13th District, Little Fish, The Break-Up, 11:14, Garfield: A Tale of Two Kitties 28th July 2006: Little Man, The Science of Sleep, Adrift, Cars Page Content copyright © Dan Owen, 2006. 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February 25th 2000 As of April 2009, Blu-rays and DVDs reviewed by the editor are watched on a Panasonic TH-37PX80B 37" Plasma TV with a Sony BDP-1500 Blu-ray player and played through a Yamaha DSP-AX820 amplifier. PC games reviewed by the editor are on: Since Jan 2011: Intel Quad Core Dell XPS 8100, i7 CPU 860 @ 2.80Ghz, 8Gb RAM, nVidia GeForce GTS 240, Windows 7 Since Nov 2005: Intel Pentium D 830 3.0Ghz, 1Gb RAM, 128Mb nVidia GeForce 6700XL, Windows XP Since Aug 2003: Intel Pentium 4 2.66Ghz, 512Mb RAM, 128Mb GeForce4 MX440 graphics, Windows XP Since May 2003: Intel Pentium 4 2.6Ghz, 512Mb RAM, 128Mb ATI Radeon 9600TX graphics, Windows XP Since Jun 2002: Intel Pentium III 600Mhz, 384Mb RAM, Windows 98 SE, 64Mb ATI Radeon 8500LE Since May 2000: Intel Pentium III 600Mhz, 384Mb RAM, Windows 98 SE, Voodoo 3 3000 AGP